Working on beating the entire Half-Life saga so far with a group of friends.

Crow550

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What would be the best way to go about this?

I am working on a document for my buddies to make the setup process as simple as possible. It's kinda messy right now. Still working on it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/...vyQ1OfXn9EmiZ-CLI/edit?hl=en&authkey=CP3ci5UK

From what I gather for Half-Life & Opposing Force use Sven Co-op.

For Blue Shift use the Blue-Shift co-op mod....

Don't know if there is a way to tweak the Decay mod for more than 2 players....

As for Half-Life 2. I know either Synergy or Obsidian Conflict.

Think I have most of this figured out....
 

Crow550

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Sven Co-op with Opposing Force or the OF co-op mod?

Anyone know if the Decay mod can be tweaked for more players?

Which would you say is better for HL2? Synergy or Obsidian Conflict?
 

Texashiker

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What would be the best way to go about this?

The best way to complete the half-life series, was to be born before the 1980s, and play the games when they were released.

But otherwise, play them in this order.

Half-Life
Opposing force
Blue Shift
Half-Life 2
Episode 1
Episode 2

I never played the Synergy or Obsidian Conflict mods.

There are a lot of good half-life mods out there, but the ones that I played were poorly designed. So I did not play too many.

1 half-life 2 mod that was nice was Ravenholm, or return to Ravenholm,,, something like that.
 

smackababy

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The best way to complete the half-life series, was to be born before the 1980s, and play the games when they were released.

But otherwise, play them in this order.

Half-Life
Opposing force
Blue Shift
Half-Life 2
Episode 1
Episode 2

I never played the Synergy or Obsidian Conflict mods.

There are a lot of good half-life mods out there, but the ones that I played were poorly designed. So I did not play too many.

1 half-life 2 mod that was nice was Ravenholm, or return to Ravenholm,,, something like that.

I beat them when they came out and I wasn't born before the 80s...
 

evilspoons

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I think the trick is that most of the co-op mods the OP is talking about weren't out when each game was originally released. :p
 

Crow550

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Hey I'd play Doom co-op (which with the Doomsday engine looks pretty good). So :p I don't give two craps how old the games are. If it has a good co-op mod or built in co-op. I will give it a whirl.

Anyways.... I figure it would be fun to romp through em all with some friends. That & I usually play co-op games more than anything else these days. Plus I never um beat Opposing Force or Blue-Shift....Or uh HL2....Ahem.

That & another friend has never played any of them either. So I think it would be fun.

The Half-Life mods I am listing are made for adding co-op play.
 

simonizor

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You should have everything that you need. As far as I know, syngergy works for episodes 1 and 2 also, so you should be good to go.